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TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Singer Keiko Fuji, the mother of pop তারকা Hikaru10+件 Utada, plunged from a condominium building to her death in a suspected suicide, Tokyo police ব্যক্ত Thursday. She was 62.

The singer of Japanese "enka" ballads was found around 7 a.m. lying and bleeding on a road in front of the condominium building in Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward. She was taken to hospital in a state of cardiac arrest and later confirmed dead.

She may have plunged from the 13th floor of the 28-story building, the police said.

Since no evidence of a struggle was found, Fuji is believed to have leaped to her death, they said.

Fuji made her debut as a singer in 1969, producing a string of hits. She retired in 1979, moving to the United States.

Fuji gave birth to Hikaru Utada in 1983 and, in a comeback, released a joint song with her daughter in 1996. In সাম্প্রতিক years, she had been little seen in public.